Ice-box.



PATENTED APR. 16, 1907 G. E. LOVBLL.

ICE BOX.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30,1906.

G. If. Lovell invrrnn sTAr s PATENT oFFIoE.

GEORGE, E. LOVELL, OF mitt, chosen-A, ASSIGNOR' or ONE-HALF TO 1 wherein a wme, &c., the necessity arated and LEOPO LD EH. MARKS,

OF ALBANY, GEORGIA.

. ICE-BOX- Specification of Letters Patent."

Patented April 16, 1907.

i i Applioationliled J'une30.1906. SerialNo.324,2li8.

and useful Improvements in Ice-Boxes, of I which the following is a specification.

TlllS mventlon relates to mprovements in lce-boxes or refrigerators designed for the storage of bottled liquids, the object of the in- -vent1on being to provide a simple, convenient, and effective device of that character may be stored and kept cool and successively removed from the box without refrigerant and wherein bottles hand ilrthe kindsof liquids may be kept sepof different removal. V z

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a central vertical frontto-rear section through the box, taken on the'line 1 1 of Fig. 2. Fig.

I 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same. 5

i Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates a box or casing, whichmay be made of wood or any other suitable material and closed at topby any suitable form of cover.

A Y (Not shown.) The boxis provided with aninterior partition or lining 2, spaced therefrom at suitable points to provide an intermediate chamber for the reception of a packing 3 of sawdust or other desired non-conducting ma- .cular disks 8,

terial. The lining 2'is.curved in a direction transversely of the casing to form a curved or nearly circular guide or trackway 4, terlminating below the top of t2; box, as clearly shown-m Fig; 2.

A shaft or axle 5 extends between the front and rear walls of the box orcasing and supports a rotary carrier 6, having a central sleeve 7, which turns upon the shaft, This is composed of-a series of spaced cirsuitably'fixedtothe sleeve and connected by intermediate plates or-strips 9, 'arranged to formja series of pockets or compartments 10 concentric with the axle 5. The several series of pockets are separated by the intervening disks and are designed to hold the bottles of liquid or liquids to be kept cool, each pfocket preferably having an outward flare, so as to conveniently admit of the .ready insertion and removal of the bottles.

carrier The bottles are inserted of Doughwhich. facilitate their mately the curved trackway4, leaving the upper porprojecting above the level The water circulates through the carrier, and thus keeps the bottles of liq desired number of bottles of beer,

'of the operator placing his readily brought into position for ject-ing inwardly and are supported and norwith their ecks 1 mally pressed outwardly by coiled springs 1 1,

removal, said springs being extended radially from the sleeve 7, to which they are suitably secured! The rotary carrier is spaced from one of the walls of the box to provide a chamber or compartment 12 'for the reception of ice, and in practice this ice is employed to refrigerate a bodyof water with which the box is filled approxi: to the level of the upper terminals of tion of the carrier, of the water.

uid contained therein cooled to the desired temperature.

.Sired to replenish the box with fresh water.

In operation thecarrier is filled with the bottles of liquid, whichmay be brought intoposition for removal by rotating the carrier, as will be readily understood, the arrangement being such that the operator may abstract one or more bottles from thetop of the carrier without bringing his hand into contact with the refrigerant. As stated, the bottles are normally pressed outward by the springs 11, which facilitate their removal, and it will be observed that between the terminals ,of the. trackway 4 the bottom portions of the bottles engage and ride on said trackway, wherebly they are held in position in the pockets unt' they .pass beyond the ends of the trackway and are inverted and mamtained in posltion b gravity. l

An ice-boxof .t character provides a simple and convenient means whereby dealers in bottled goods may keep a supply of the A faucet 13 is provide'dforthe Withdrawal of the water whenever it is degoods at a proper low temperature for.d1s-

.pensation and which allows thedealer to re. move the bottles without the disagreeable necessity of groping'in the box and submerging his hand-in the refrigerant. The rotary carrier further allows the bottles to be. clrculated through the cooling agent andenables them to .be conveniently brought into position for removal by simply said carrier. Byproviding-the'carrier with'se arate sets or series of chambers or ockets erent kinds of bottle liquids may e stored therein and kept separate from each other.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is' 1. A refrigerator of the character described comprising a receptacle adapted to ceptacle from the carrier and be partly filled with a refrigerant, a rotating carrier within said receptacle vertically ar-.

ranged to turn'upon a horizontal axis, said carrier being} provided with radial pockets opening. through the peripher'ythereof, and a trackway having a bottom portion disposed concentric to the axis of the carrier and sides diverging upwardly and outwardly bottom portion thereof, said' carrier being adapted to progressively vforce the ,bottles into the pockets and terminating below the and ascending movements of the pockets in the ro ranged vertically Within the receptacle-to rotate upon a horizontal axis, said carrier being ovided with a series of radial pocketsopening through'theiperiphery thereof, supporting-springs'at the inner ends of the pockets for yleldingly holding. the bottles therein, and atrackwayhaving a bottom concentric with the axis of'the carrler and diverging sides leading away from the carportion rier and terminating below the open top of v the receptacle, said trackway being adapted 'to hold the bottles below the open top of the receptacle seated in the pockets, whereby as the pockets pass beyond the will be 'projected by the springs.

In testimony whereof I affix my sign'ature 4o in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE E. LOVELL.

Witnesses:

' 'MORRIS W s osKY, MAX 'LoNsBE'Re;

trackway across the open top of the receptacle the bottles 

